Roughly bounded by Reading RR, Flat Rock Dam, Schuylkill River, and Lot 4025 Main St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 18, 1983. NRIS 83002274.
91 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 12 contributing structures.
Manayunk ( MAN-ə-yunk) is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States (although not the first completed, due to budget problems).
The area's name is derived from the language of the Lenape Native American tribe. In 1686, in documents between William Penn and the Lenape, the Lenape referred to the Schuylkill River as "Manaiung", their word for "river", which literally translates as "place to drink"; the word was later altered and adopted as the town's name.
Although historically a working class community, in recent years the neighborhood has been substantially gentrified.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996932